Just Not Said

Jane Goodall was born in 1934 in Bournemouth, England; her father was a businessman and her mother a novelist. When she was barely one, h...

Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has been in the news recently for having stretched the truth about her past. Her c...

I was amazed to find out in this morning's NY Post that the NFL actually has tax-exempt status, along with the NHL and the LPGA. How...

That Jordan Belfort, whom  The Wolf of Wall Street  was about, is a sociopath is hardly a revelation. Anybody who orchestrated a con like...

We saw The Wolf of Wall Street last night. Afterwards, I asked my son if the movie made him want to work on Wall Street. He said no, but it ...

Lt. Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who didn't come out of the Philippine jungle until 1974, when his former commanding officer from W...

Human skeletons have long been a staple of Halloween and haunted houses. It is only just now occurring to me that there is a good evolutio...

A lot of universities refer to their undergraduate programs as "the college of arts and sciences." Fair enough; some of what these...

I haven't written any new posts in this series since July of 2012, but I recently realized that my beta male mindset affects my relation...

I watch a fair amount of the National Geographic Channel. One of the most striking things about it is how many of its shows appeal to guys w...

You've probably heard about this already; in case you haven't, you'll probably  find it interesting . When a country puts ...

This blog doesn't allow me to see who has looked at it (which I'd love to be able to do). But it does allow me to see how many page ...

A post I wrote three years ago today, which is still appropriate for tonight.

American Hustle is about a pair of small time grifters who get caught up in an FBI sting modeled after Abscam, which ensnared a Senator and...

Stumbled across this clever satirical blog about life in the military; here's a particularly funny article .

UncleBob's Treehouse , Bob Wallace's excellent blog, mentioned recently that there have been over 80 public school shootings in the ...

I've always been vaguely aware of Scientology as a religion, though I've never paid it close attention. I knew of its cult-like repu...

The most divisive issue facing the Ukraine right now is whether to join the European Union, or remain more closely allied with Russia. Vladi...

There's been a lot of talk in the press lately about the way Obama took a selfie with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmid...

There are subcultures of toughness in the US. Any criminal gang -- black, white, or Hispanic -- is going to esteem toughness. The military o...